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Pl check record of Russia,China on this topic.India is far better where people interesting in breaking India are tolerated and ignored.Alll naxalites leaders childern are in good school/college.Same with Hurriyat.
In the name of freedom of speech autright freedom cannot be given.When u people talk of human rights ,what happens to human rights of families of shaheed?No psuedo secular meet them but go like vultures even if one dalit is killed.Why this double standard?

A move in the rightward direction is something we notice today even about nations which used to be standard bearers for human rights at one time. Freedom is desirable, but for politicians a dispensable irritation. India during its entire history, pre- and post independence alike, has always chosen a reactionary ideology. Rightwingism privileges military capability over all other national concerns everywhere. In the West, nations which have no need for giant armed forces toe the NATO line and contribute to the wholesale destruction of whatever U.S. politicians consider their enemy. The pain of people in the Middle East, ruled by U.S. supported bloodthirsty despots and mullas, seeing the destruction of their nations for no reason is no less intense than the lingering effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unless we all acquire a semblance of reasonableness as Canada has done, we are doomed to become victims of militarism, ethnicism, and religiosity. Is there an alternative? Yes, it goes by the name of a meaningful, liberating education which can help us make wise choices in life.